New Mexico Goatheads

The New Mexico Goatheads are a future professional minor league ice hockey team based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, in the Albuquerque metropolitan area. The Goatheads will play in the ECHL and bring New Mexico their first professional hockey team since the folding of the New Mexico Scorpions in 2009. Home games will be played at Rio Rancho Events Center and are the affiliates of the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL and the Colorado Eagles of the AHL.

The Goatheads are owned by Rev Entertainment, who also operate the Cleburne Railroaders and Kane County Cougars of the American Association of Professional Baseball. It was also announced that the Dallas Stars will act as consultants in hockey operations and player development.